On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:35:03 +0000, Dougal Stanton <ith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Benjamin L. Russell ><dekudekup...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> If neither #haskell nor #haskell-in-depth is appropriate, >> perhaps they would feel more comfortable in a >> Haskell-beginners-specific channel? > >The danger with that is the only people who go there are beginners >looking for advice. Without advisers also, it would quickly wither. > >How has the beginners' mailing list worked out, in this regard? At >least with a ML it's possible to set aside some part of the day to >answering questions... the same is not really possible for 5-hour-old >conversations on IRC. It seems to have been working out quite well. Last month, there were a total of 57 threads, including 192 messages in Haskell-Beginners. Most questions get responses within a few minutes. You can see the archives for last month at http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/2009-January/thread.html . -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
